(AU, NZ, slang) The hospitality industry.
(AU, NZ, slang) The hospitality industry.
In reality there are only around 24 MWs in Australia, so the chances of me coming across someone who's just attained theirs, and is applying for a hospo job, is rather low.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(slang) hospital.
(US, slang) Howard Johnson's (the chain of fast food restaurants).
Hossie is a casual, breezy slang shortening of 'hospital' used in everyday conversation, particularly in Australian, British, and South African English. It takes the sting out of a clinical setting by treating it like any other everyday destination — the same way 'footy' softens 'football'. You'd use hossie when casually telling someone you're heading in for a check-up, describing a long stint recovering, or sympathising with someone who landed themselves in A&E.
(AU) A public house; a pub.
Australian slang for a resident of public housing, formed in the typical Australian manner by shortening and adding '-o'. The term can be used neutrally or with condescension depending on the speaker, and carries the social weight of class and housing inequality in Australia.